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    ARMENIAN TV SHOWS CAMPAIGN ADVERTS FOR PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES

    Public TV
    Jan 23 2008
    Armenia

    Armenian Public TV showed campaign adverts for several presidential
    candidates on 26 January. The television showed Armenia's first
    president and presidential candidate, Levon Ter-Petrosyan, criticizing
    the current Armenian authorities. Ter-Petrosyan accused the authorities
    of fraud while importing petrol and gas, blamed them for the October
    1999 attack on the parliament and other assassinations.

    Ter-Petrosyan said that if he is elected, he will restore
    constitutional order in the country. He added that he will create
    equal conditions for businessmen and secure free competition.

    He said that he will improve the social welfare of the population,
    treble salaries and quadruple pensions.

    Speaking about the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict, Ter-Petrosyan said that
    he will do everything possible not to resume hostilities in Karabakh.

    The television also showed Ter-Petrosyan's campaign advert saying that
    he will hold a campaign meeting in the town of Talin on 27 January.

    After that, Public TV showed presidential candidate Aram Harutyunyan,
    the leader of the National Solidarity Party, calling on members of
    the National Self-Determination Association (led by Paruyr Hayrikyan)
    to support his candidacy in the presidential elections.

    Also, a campaign advert was shown for the presidential candidate and
    leader of the National Unity Party, Artashes Geghamyan.

    Public TV then showed the presidential candidate and Armenian
    deputy parliament speaker, Vahan Hovhannisyan, holding a meeting
    with voters in Tavush Region on 25 January. Hovhannisyan said at
    the meeting that the current authorities consider themselves to be
    rulers and ordinary citizens to be servants. But in reality, it is the
    authorities that should serve the people, he said. Hovhannisyan called
    on voters to support the candidate from the Armenian Revolutionary
    Federation-Dashnaktsutyun.

    In turn, the presidential candidate and a former aide to the leader
    of Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagornyy Karabakh, Arman Melikyan,
    was shown speaking about problems in the cultural sphere.

    At the end, the television showed a meeting with voters held by the
    presidential candidate and prime minister, Serzh Sargsyan, in Yerevan's
    Nor Nork community on 25 January. Sargsyan called on voters to take
    an active part in the 19 February presidential election and vote for
    people they trust. Addressing his supporters, Sargsyan said that he
    needs their support in the presidential elections.
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